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Funding

Linguistics provides research grants to Linguistics Certificate and Independent Concentration students who conduct research or scholarly travel related to language and linguistics. Interested students are invited to submit application materials via the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE). The application should provide a clear description of the student’s anticipated project, as well as an outline of expenses that will be incurred. Applications are received and reviewed on a rolling basis.

Senior Thesis Funding

The Program also offers funding to its Certificate and Independent Concentration students who conduct senior thesis research concerning language and linguistics. Interested students are invited to submit application materials via SAFE. The application should provide a clear description of the student’s anticipated project, as well as an outline of expenses that will be incurred. Applications are received and reviewed during the academic year, in early October (for students conducting research during the fall and/or winter break) and from January – March (for students conducting research over spring break and/or the upcoming summer months).

Deadlines

October 2, 2017 for Fall/Winter Recess 2017

March 5, 2018 for Spring Break 2018

March 27, 2018 for Summer 2018

Senior Thesis Prize

The Senior Thesis Prize in Linguistics recognizes the best senior thesis written and defended by a Linguistics Independent Concentrator. The 2017 prize has been awarded to co-winners Dora Demszky for “StaTIC: A Dataset of Question-Driven Inference Chains” and Yiwei Luo for “The Instrument Subject Construction: A Corpus-Driven Account”.